Diabolical Conception

Paul J. Griffiths April 30, 2007 - 8:42am

The Castle in the Forest
Norman Mailer
Random House, $27.95, 496 pp.

Norman Mailer published his first quasi-novel, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948, and his most recent, The Castle in the Forest, earlier this year, very close to his eighty-fourth birthday. In the almost six decades separating those two books he’s published more than thirty others, won two Pulitzer Prizes and one National Book Award, divorced five wives (he’s still married to a sixth), run for mayor of New York City, and directed one of...

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